One of my favorite video essayists, Kirby Ferguson, has an incredible series titled Everything is a Remix that makes an argument that storytelling and art as a whole is a progressive series of ideas being re-interpreted and remixed time and time again. True originality isn’t the creation of something wholly new but the combination and re-tooling of a number of different ideas from a number of different sources. So, in honor of INCEPTION’s tenth anniversary, I set about investigating a number of varied films that exist somewhere in the movie’s background, and that writer-director Christopher Nolan remixed for his now classic popcorn thriller.